30-YEAR REIGN OF TERROR!

Terrorist. “… one who administers or coerces a government or community by intimidation…” (Webster’s Dictionary)
 
Terrorize. “To impress with terror; to reduce to a state of terror as by violence, cruelty or threats -- to coerce by intimidation.” (Webster’s Dictionary)

Terrorism. “Act of terrorizing or state of being terrorized. The system of the Reign of Terror.  A mode of governing or opposing government by intimidation. Any policy of intimidation.”  (Webster’s Dictionary).

The purpose of The Los Osos Sentinel is to expose the criminal activity connected with the fraudulent central sewer project and identify the terrorists responsible for the 30-year Reign of Terror with irrefutable, verifiable evidence; to unite the community into one voice, one action and to finally bring the terrorists to the civil and criminal Bar of Justice for their crimes against Los Osos, the taxpayer and the State of California.

For more than three decades, regardless of the horrific, unaffordable social and economic costs to thousands of residents, Los Osos has been under a diabolically planned, deliberate assault by a small, determined group of terrorists headed by public agencies and private individuals, all with the same intent: to pillage, plunder and destroy Los Osos.

It begins with social cleansing through a mass exodus, followed by a crash in property values, a massive build-out of million dollar homes, shopping centers, town houses and much more, enabled by the installation of a forced unneeded, unaffordable billion-dollar central sewer.           

The terrorists’ calculated Reign of Terror has succeeded in traumatizing and confusing most in our community, especially those who are new to the area. Their degenerate, dictatorial contempt for law, their deliberate disregard for the health and safety of our community and their despicable, deviant acts have terrorized and divided our community. Since 1994, many hundreds of our neighbors have moved away; some have even died fighting this horror.      
  
The Los Osos Sentinel has amassed more than 4,000 pages of evidence documents and support material exposing the massive fraud and conspiracy surrounding the Los Osos central sewer debacle and revealing all those responsible.
 
As of this writing additional evidence and support documents continue to surface and there is every reason to believe that more will be exposed. It would be impossible to include everything in this publication and hold the reader’s attention.
 
There are a number of links throughout this publication included to give the reader a complete understanding of the depth and depravity of the scheme and those responsible as well as provide legal references and actual definitions and explanations. As additional, relevant information is received we will inform you and activate those links.
 
Unlike the LOCSD, the County and the RWQCB terrorists, The Los Osos Sentinel believes that truth is the light of justice and freedom.
 
It is the intent of The Los Osos Sentinel to present an abundance of truthful, factual material to allow readers to make informed, intelligent decisions. Make no mistake, this is not about a sewer or contaminated water and it’s not just about Los Osos. It’s about the battle between good and evil; it’s about the fight to save and preserve our freedom.
 
For decades, all across our nation, scenarios like this one have been played out and continue to be so because too many people are easily victimized. It is easy and safe to accept capitulation when you have been made to believe that the loss of your freedom is inevitable.
 
Since 1981, without any supportive science or public health interest, a coterie of immoral, unscrupulous and devious people, many in positions of elected and appointed State, County and local authority, enabled by a band of cowardly, greedy special interest trash, initiated a calculated campaign of FRAUD, DECEIT and INTIMIDATION against selected residents of Los Osos (“Prohibition Zone”) with the single purpose of forcing an unneeded, unaffordable, out-dated and medically dangerous central sewer system on the community.
 
This group of determined terrorists have done their best to victimize Los Osos and steal our freedom but have been unsuccessful, not because there were a few disgruntled “sewer activists” in opposition, but because some of our friends and neighbors took the time to learn the truth then stand together against the terrorists.
  
Common sense dictates that if there had there been a real, proven danger to Los Osos water caused by our on-site systems; had there been a real need to abandon perfectly good on-site septic systems in favor of a vaccine-resistant, deadly pathogen-producing factory to save and preserve our water, it would not have taken 30+ years or still face determined opposition.
 
The laws are clear and strict when it comes to protecting and preserving our water. The only people who get away with defying those laws are those responsible for upholding them. The story is an old one: greed and corruption by a few at the expense of many.
 
Too many people in Los Osos believe the fraudulent vaccine-resistant, deadly pathogen-producing factory is inevitable. It is not inevitable! Once you have the facts, know the truth then make the commitment to join the fight for freedom, victory will be in the hands of the community.
 
The purpose of The Los Osos Sentinel is to provide those facts and help lead the way in the fight to protect and preserve our freedom. The future of Los Osos is still in our hands. Time is our enemy; apathy a serial killer.
 
Action is required now! Further delays will only succeed in playing into the terrorists’ hands. We still have two simple choices…
 
1) Continue to be a victim and do nothing, forfeit your freedom, be forced to pay upwards of $300,000 for an unneeded, unaffordable, vaccine-resistant, deadly pathogen-producing factory, then watch our community turn into a mini San Jose or:
 
2) Read The Los Osos Sentinel, learn the truth then stand with your friends and neighbors and take the only action that will defeat the terrorists and protect and preserve your freedom.
 
The details of the only legal action guaranteed to permanently end the 30-Year Reign of Terror, bring the terrorists to the Bar of Justice, return truth and sensibility to Los Osos and guarantee the ability to bring safe, sensible and affordable technologies to maintain on-site and cluster systems, protect our drinking water in perpetuity and preserve our freedom are in The Sentinel.
 
The journey of truth begins here.

FOLLOW THE MONEY

IN THE BEGINNING   

 
In or around 1975 the Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB) created the Central Coast Basin Plan that contained a number of observations and suggestions to guarantee a safe, healthy and clean water basin for Los Osos.

The Plan suggested the County take simple steps to preserve and protect the water quality of Los Osos. Those steps included: 1) Pump down the upper aquifer groundwater in and around the Bay and wherever else needed, 2) Install a Cluster Plant (small wastewater treatment facility) to accommodate the homes around the Bay, 3) Initiate a mandatory Septic Tank Maintenance Program, and 4) Create and implement an On-site Sewer Maintenance Program.
 
The recommendation to pump the groundwater was prompted by annual flooding in the area next to and around the Bay during the rainy season that causes some septic tanks to back up, dumping wastewater on to the streets. Pumping the groundwater would allow the leach fields to function properly and prevent annual flooding. The groundwater in Los Osos had never been pumped down.
 
In order to make it easier to understand the components and simplicity of the situation, we are including definitions and links (where applicable).
 

LEACH FIELDS

 
“Septic drain fields (or Leach or Drain Fields) are used to remove contaminants and impurities from the liquid that emerges from the septic tank. A septic tank, the septic drain field, and the associated piping compose a complete septic system. The septic drain field is effective for disposal of organic materials readily catabolized by a microbial ecosystem.
 
“The drain field typically consists of an arrangement of trenches containing perforated pipes and porous media covered by a layer of soil to prevent animals and surface precipitation runoff from reaching the wastewater distributed within those trenches.[1] Primary design considerations are hydraulic for the volume of wastewater requiring disposal and catabolic for the long-term biochemical oxygen demand of that wastewater.” (Wikipedia)
 

CLUSTER SYSTEMS

 
There is a wonderful and informative Purdue University Web site that will explain all of the mechanics and advantages of a Cluster System. Go to:
http://www.ces.purdue.edu/extmedia/ID/ID-265.pdf

In short, a Cluster System “collect[s] wastewater from a small number of homes, usually 2 to 10, and transports it via an alternative sewer to a pretreatment and land absorption area with no surface discharge of effluent. Within this description, the options can be divided into the following categories: collection, pretreatment, final soil absorption, and management of the system.”
 
There are larger cluster systems that handle 200 homes or more.
 
By installing a small cluster plant to service the area around the Bay, as was also recommended by the USEPA and other experts, the wastewater from existing homes and future development would be safely serviced and there would be no danger of waste backup or salt water intrusion (if any).
 

SEPTIC TANK MAINTENANCE PROGRAM

 
The community-wide Septic Tank Maintenance Program would have guaranteed the inspection of all septic tanks in Los Osos and the establishment of new development standards based on the advances in current technologies.
 
By having mandatory septic tank inspections on a regular schedule, safe, affordable wastewater treatment and the preservation of a high quality of water would be preserved. Any on-site systems that fell into disrepair would be identified and immediately be repaired or replaced.
 
For those people on a low or fixed income such as Social Security, Disability and the like, there were (and are) Grant programs available through the State Water Board and the USEPA to cover most or all of the cost to replace or repair a system. There are also provisions under CWC that allow for the RWQCB to pay for part or all.
 
As was their usual response to anything constructive for Los Osos, the county chose not to initiate any of the RWQCB recommendations. They chose instead to do nothing. The economic importance of Los Osos was not yet on the build-out/additional tax revenue radar. Interest in Los Osos by developers, the County and water board agencies began to gain steam in and around 1981-'82.
 
In 1983 the RWQCB issued Resolution 83-12 (Link), “Concerning Revisions and Amendment of Water Quality Control Plan, Central Coast Basin,” (referred to as “The Basin Plan).
 
It begins in part with: “WHEREAS, the Regional Board recognizes increased difficulties in financing and affording major public works systems, such as sewage, collection, transport, treatment and disposal projects; and, WHEREAS, properly planned and installed individual on-site sewage disposal systems can provide satisfactory wastewater treatment and disposal at minimal cost …”
 
Resolution 83-12 gives guidelines for on-site preservation, maintenance and safety. On page three they state: “On-site systems can be a viable long-term waste disposal method with proper sitting, design, construction and management. In establishing on-site system regulations, agencies must consider such systems as permanent, not interim systems to be replaced by public sewers.”

On-site system management is a primary concern. The Resolution states that: “If on-site sewage treatment facilities are not carefully managed, problems can occur, including: odors or nuisance, surfacing effluent, disease transmission, and pollution of surface and ground waters.”
 
They further state: “Sewage is capable of transmitting diseases from organisms which are discharged by an infected individual. These include dysentery, hepatitis, typhoid, cholera and gastro-intestinal disorders.”
 
Under “Corrective Actions for Existing Systems,” page four, Resolution 83-12 states: … septic tank maintenance procedures are encouraged to lessen the probability that a few major failures might force sewering of an area which otherwise could be retained on individual systems without compromising water quality.
 
“Often a few systems will fail in an area where more frequent septic tank pumping, corrections to plumbing or leach fields, or in-home water conservation measures could prevent deterioration. Improvements of this kind should be enforced by a local septic tank maintenance district or local governing jurisdiction.”
 
The RWQCB recommended: “All on-site system owners need to be aware of proper operation and maintenance procedures. Local governing jurisdictions should mount a continuing public education program to provide homeowners with on-site system operation and maintenance guidelines.
 
“Local agencies should conduct an on-site system inspection program… An agency inspector should periodically check each septic tank for pumping need and each system for proper operation.”
 
They further suggest: “… Periodically … mail homeowners a brochure reminding them how to maintain and inspect their on-site system.”
 
Under “Individual System Maintenance” they state: “Individual septic tanks should be maintained as follows: 1) Septic tanks should be inspected every 2 to 5 years to determine the need for pumping, 2) Septic tanks should be pumped whenever: a) the scum layer is within 3 inches of the outlet device; or b) the sludge level is within 8 inches of the bottom of the outlet device, 3) Drain fields should be alternated when drain-field inspection pipes reveal a high water level …13) Where appropriate, septic tank systems should be maintained by local septic tank maintenance districts.” (LOCSD).
 
Under “Page 5-63, replace management principle number fourteen with the following:” “The Regional Board intends to discourage high-density development on septic tank disposal systems and generally will require increased size of parcels with slower percolation rates.” This was the stone wall to the potential massive build-out of Los Osos. 
 
If this were allowed to stand, there would be no sewer and, more importantly to the terrorists, no massive build-out or open flood-gate of profits.
 
Further in the text: “Consideration of development will be based upon the percolation rates and engineering reports supplied. In any questionable situation, engineer designed systems will be required.
 
Under “Prohibition Exemptions is: Engineered systems shall be designed only by registered engineers competent in sanitary engineering … Engineers should be responsible for educating system users of proper operation and maintenance. Maintenance schedules should be established.” (Sentinel note: For on-site systems).
 
The County and their developer friends knew that this clause would not only allow residents to retain their on-site systems, it set a strict criteria for larger lots to be used for single-family homes that would accommodate on-site systems, thereby reducing the amount of available land on which to build and prevent any massive build-out of the community.
 
The County had already invested hundreds of thousands of dollars and publicly committed to forcing the unneeded vaccine-resistant, deadly pathogen-producing factory on Los Osos. It needed the RWQCB to make some changes in the Basin Plan and that’s exactly what their terrorist allies at the RWQCB did.

Within days of issuing Resolution 83-12, they issued Resolution 83-13 (Link) which created the Prohibition Zone and opened the way for the now-infamous vaccine-resistant, deadly pathogen-producing factory sewer.
 
Resolution 83-13 was quickly put together to deliberately deny the continued use of on-site systems and implement the Prohibition Zone and open the door for the County to force the project on Los Osos and to accommodate their developer and realtor friends.   
 
The title of 83-13 reads in part: “… Prohibition of Waste Discharge from Individual Sewage Disposal Systems Within the Los Osos/Baywood Park Area …”
 
Paragraph 7 sets the stage for maximum population expansion: “WHEREAS, current zoning will accommodate a population of 27,000 people and an average residential lot size of 6600 ft. …”
 
Page 3, paragraph 7 states: “WHEREAS, the Regional Board finds the afore-stated conditions in need of remedy to protect present and potential beneficial use of water and to prevent pollution and nuisance …”
 
Page 4, paragraph 3 states: “Discharges from individual or community systems within the prohibition area in excess of an additional 1150 [new] housing units (or equivalent) are prohibited …”
 
In other words, the RWQCB allowed for an additional 1150 homes to be built in the PZ with on-site systems.
  
The entire five pages of text comprising Resolution 83-13 coldly and deliberately sets the stage for the County to attempt to force the installation of a vaccine-resistant, deadly pathogen-producing factory in Los Osos.
 
Resolution 83-13 does NOT “mandate” a central sewer or any other remedy. That’s because the RWQCB is not allowed to “mandate” any form of compliance.
 
CWC 13360 states: “No waste discharge requirement or other order of a regional board or the state board or decree of a court issued under this division shall specify the design, location, type of construction, or particular manner in which compliance may be had with that requirement, order, or decree, and the person so ordered shall be permitted to comply with the order in any lawful manner.”
 
Yet at the bottom of page 4, after “BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that compliance with the above prohibition of existing individuals or community sewage disposal systems shall be achieved according to the following schedule:”
 
At first glance, this would make the reader believe that the timetable referred to was a deadline to resolve and comply, not be forced to build a vaccine-resistant, deadly pathogen- producing factory. But when you read the timetable it reads like a sewer completion schedule. And it was.

Since Resolution 83-13 was issued in 1983 and the County had already begun their steps towards forcing the project on Los Osos in 1981; and, since Resolution 83-13 was hastily written and issued within one or two weeks of Resolution 83-12 that simply recommended sensible steps to guarantee the continued use of on-site systems and the preservation of our water quality, it is reasonable to believe that the verbiage as set forth in Resolution 83-13 was deliberately contrived for the benefit of the County project.
 
The PZ was drawn up by RWQCB Board member George Rathmill, who lived in Cabrillo Estates. When you look at the map (Link), you quickly see the targeted areas of lower and middle-income families.
 
With no objective and accurate science to support the action, by order of the executive level of the RWQCB and with the swipe of a pen, Rathmill created the [Groundwater] Prohibition Zone.
 
Rathmill was allowed to deliberately exclude Cabrillo Estates, Bay View Heights and selected areas from the PZ. The terrorists were focused in on the low- and middle-income areas in the center of town. That’s where the money is. Hundreds of smaller, older homes on small lots ready for the picking.
 
Cabrillo Estates and Bayview Heights were considered more substantial residential areas with larger and/or newer homes. Many of the terrorists and their enablers lived (and still live) in these areas. They are off limits... for now.
 
Make no mistake, once the vaccine-resistant, deadly pathogen-producing factory is built, these excluded neighborhoods will be forced to abandon their perfectly good on-site systems and hook up. The only difference is they won’t have to pay for bonds and other fees already piled on to the backs of the PZ people.
 

THEY’RE OFF TO THE RACES!

 
Before Resolution 83-13 had created the PZ, the County was off to the races. In 1982 they hired Brown & Caldwell Engineering to drill groundwater monitoring wells in Los Osos. These wells were to be used to collect water-quality data to support the forced project.
 
What was actually found was that most of the wells tested below the required limit on Nitrates. The test data was not supporting the dialogue. This made no difference to the County terrorists because they had already set their sights on the tax revenue, so truth and facts were not allowed to get in the way.
 
In 1984, two years after the wells were installed, Roger Briggs of the RWQCB sent a memo to his then-superiors, Jones and Leonard (Briggs Memo Link), in which Briggs reported that after close inspection by Percy Garcia of the County and Frank de Marco of the RWQCB of Tables 2 & 3, “… there was no indication of human bacteria contamination except in the poorly constructed monitoring wells.”
 
NOT FROM ON-SITE SEPTIC SYSTEMS!
 
He further stated: “Frank inspected these wells last week with Percy and agrees there is a potential for contamination from surface runoff.”
 
NOT FROM ON-SITE SEPTIC SYSTEMS!
 
At least 11 of these groundwater monitoring wells have been used for more than 20 years to collect specious and fraudulent data in Los Osos. They are primarily a metal tube in the ground with a loose cap, no seals or secondary compartments to protect groundwater from contaminants. (Link to drawing of a monitoring well)  
 
These temporary wells have a legal life span of one year or less. If a well is to be used after their legal life span, it must be brought up to California Well Standards. If not, then it must be permanently sealed with concrete.
 
Monitoring wells are required to be installed at a certain height above ground level. Many of the Los Osos wells were [deliberately] installed below ground level, some closely surrounded by dense vegetation (such as ice plants).
 
Even today, whenever it rains, whenever an animal urinates or defecates near or on the wells; whenever someone dumps harmful liquids or chemicals on or near the wells, contaminates flow freely into the public water.
 
Despite the fact that the wells were already one year illegal and had been confirmed as “potential for contamination from surface runoff,” there was no Order from the RWQCB to take the appropriate actions to either seal the wells or bring them up to California Well Standards.
 
As mandated by law, it was the obligation of the RWQCB to issue a Cease & Desist Order and/or a Cleanup and Abatement Order to the County. Since no Order was issued, at that point Roger Briggs, his superiors, Jones and Leonard, and the County were in violation of a number of California Water Code laws.

The County was aware of the conditions because in the same Briggs memo he stated, “The County does not want to debate these points on the 7th.”  The County was not interested in anything but pushing the project forward as quickly as they could with no regard for science, facts or procedure. Just like they are doing now.
  
Below are some of the pertinent California Water Codes violated by the County and the RWQCB and later the LOCSD regarding the illegal wells.
  
CWC 13700. “The Legislature finds that the greater portion of the water used in this state is obtained from underground sources and that those waters are subject to impairment in quality and purity, causing detriment to the health, safety and welfare of the people of the state.
 
“The Legislature therefore declares that the people of the state have a primary interest in the location, construction, maintenance, abandonment and destruction of … groundwater monitoring wells … which activities directly affect the quality and purity of the underground waters.”
 
CWC 13701. “The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
 
(a) “Improperly constructed and abandoned … groundwater monitoring wells … can allow contaminated water on the surface to flow down the well casing, thereby contaminating the usable groundwater.
 
(b) “Improperly constructed … groundwater monitoring wells … can allow unusable or low quality groundwater from one groundwater level to flow along the well casing to usable groundwater levels, thereby contaminating the usable groundwater.
 
(c) “Contamination of groundwater poses serious public health and economic problems for many areas of the state.”
 
CWC 13304. (a) “Any person … who has caused or permitted, causes or permits … any waste to be discharged or deposited where it is, or probably will be, discharged into the waters of the state and creates … a condition of pollution or nuisance, shall upon order of the regional board, clean up the waste or abate the effects of the waste, or, in the case of threatened pollution or nuisance, take other necessary remedial action, including, but not limited to, overseeing cleanup and abatement efforts.”
 
The RWQCB was legally obligated to issue a Cease and Desist and a Cleanup or Abatement Order regarding the “poorly constructed groundwater monitoring wells.”
 
“Upon failure of any person to comply with the cleanup or abatement order, the Attorney General, at the request of the board (State or Regional), shall petition the superior court for that county for the issuance of an injunction requiring the person to comply with the order.”
 
Instead, the enforcers became violators.
  
CWC 13340. “Whenever a regional board finds that a discharge of waste within its region is … threatening to take place which does or will cause a condition of pollution or nuisance, constituting an emergency requiring immediate action to protect the public health, welfare, or safety, the Attorney General, upon request of the board, shall petition the superior court to enjoin such discharge.”
 
The RWQCB found conditions of potential groundwater pollution that threatened the public health, welfare and safety but decided the public was not as important as the sewer. Developers and friends in the government were taking priority over the lives and safety of the community.
 
CWC 13350. (a) Any person who 1) causes or permits waste to be deposited where it is discharged, into the waters of the state … shall be liable civilly, and remedies may be proposed, in accordance with subdivision (d) or (e).
 
By deliberately refusing to obey the law regarding the “poorly constructed monitoring wells,” the RWQCB and the County were “permitting waste to be deposited” into the public water. Anyone at any time could easily dump any type of waste into the groundwater with impunity.
 
CWC 13350 (d) The court may impose civil liability either on a daily basis or on a per gallon basis, but not both.
 
(1) The civil liability on a daily basis may not exceed fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for each day the violation occurs.
 
Sentinel note: The 11 wells have been illegal since 1983 and are still illegal today (2009). At $15,000 per day, that is $5,475,000 per year, making the total penalty to date $2,843,000,000 owed by the RWQCB and the County. The LOCSD share would be based on a 10-year time period (1999–2009): $54,750,000.
 
CWC 13350 (e) The state board or a regional board may impose civil liability administratively pursuant to Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 13323) of Chapter 5 either on a daily basis or on a per gallon basis, but not both.
 
(1) The civil liability on a daily basis may not exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) for each day the violation occurs.
 
Sentinel note: The State Water Board could impose an additional minimum sum of $47,450,000 on the RWQCB and the County and $18,250,000 on the LOCSD. The RWQCB penalty would have to be paid from State Water Board budget.
 
CWC 13225.  Each regional board, with respect to its region, shall do all of the following:
     
(d) Request enforcement by appropriate federal, state and local agencies of their respective water quality control laws.
 
(g) Report to the state board and appropriate local health officer any case of suspected contamination in its region.
  
(h) File with the state board, at its request, copies of the record of any official action.
  
(j) Encourage [not “MANDATE”] coordinated regional planning and action for water quality control.
 
From 1983 through the present, these illegal groundwater monitoring wells have been continuously used to collect fraudulent, specious data to promote the illegal sewer project.
 
The RWQCB, the County and later the LOCSD were all aware of the dangerous conditions and illegality of these wells, yet knowingly and willingly continued to use the illegal data to deceive and terrorize Los Osos.
 
The County and the RWQCB were aware that contaminates found in Los Osos’ water were not from on-site systems as early as 1982. Evidence of this is found in two correspondence from two relevant sources: Black & Veatch Waste Science and Technology Corp. (an International Corporation) (Link), and Brown & Caldwell Engineers, the people hired to drill and monitor the groundwater monitoring wells. (Link)
 
The B&V letter subject was: “Baywood – Los Osos Soil and Groundwater Nitrogen Study,” and was sent to Percy Garcia, Water Quality Manager for the County, with copies to: County Supervisor Bud Laurent; Ray Bracken, CSA 9 Advisory Board; Jay Cano, RWQCB; Dr. Tom Ruehr, Soil Science Department, Cal Poly State University; and Wade Brimm, Civil Engineer.
 
“Results of the study indicate: 1) Approximately 98% of the nitrogen detected in the soil is immobile organic nitrogen. Less than 1% was detected as nitrate-nitrogen, except in a few zones where approximately 2% to 3% of the nitrogen was detected as nitrate-nitrogen.
 
“Organic nitrogen concentrations are higher at a depth between 1 foot and 5 feet beneath sites covered with native and landscaped vegetation than the same depth beneath septic system sites. This may be from the vegetation which contributes more nitrogen due to mineralization.
 
Sentinel note: In a January 9, 2001 letter from Roger Briggs to then-LOCSD GM Bruce Buel, Briggs states: “… some studies suggest that decay of natural vegetation, rather than septic systems, is the source of nitrate contamination of groundwater … these statements should be deleted … These statements lead a reader to question the need for the project (sewer) and intentionally reduce public confidence and support.”
  
The B&V study continues: “4) Nitrate concentrations are higher in the groundwater than in the unsaturated zones beneath the sites which suggest that additional nitrate-nitrogen is migrating laterally from off-site sources.
 
“5) Nitrification and de-nitrification at the Bay Ridge leach-field site appeared to be directly released to the frequency and duration of the infiltration cycles. High nitrate-nitrogen concentrations were associated with the wet cycles immediately following long dry cycles. Subsequently, 80% to 90% of the nitrogen was removed by de-nitrification.”
 
In August 17, 1982, a letter from N. Thomas Sheahan, Project Manager for Brown & Caldwell was sent to Clinton Milne, Deputy County Engineer. Subject: “Preliminary Study Conclusions, Phase 1 Water Quality Management Study, SLO County Service Area 9.”
 
Under “Summary of Conclusions”:
 
3) “Nitrates and total dissolved solids (TDS) are the only parameters analyzed which appear to be indicators of groundwater contamination.” (No coliforms)
 
4) “Our analysis of the water quality data indicate that although there is a substantially wide variation in the chemical character of the well water samples, there is no apparent distinction between the character of groundwater from shallow versus deep wells.
 
5) “Wastewater samples analyzed for the study are similar in their chemical character. The character of the wastewater samples is markedly different from the chemical character of groundwater samples.
 
6) “Groundwater samples do not show characteristics of seawater intrusion.
 
10) “A very close correlation exists between areas of low nitrate and high density vegetation.
 
11) “Groundwater samples, even those containing high nitrate concentrations, do not exhibit chemical characteristics attributable to septic tank effluent other than TDS … Although septic tank effluent contains higher TDS concentrations than the groundwater samples analyzed, TDS and nitrates alone are not sufficient to link groundwater degradation with septic tanks.”
 
In an October 6, 1982 memo from Percy Garcia, Chemist, to Clint Milne, Deputy (SLO) County Engineer, Subject: “Brown & Caldwell CSA 9A Water Study,” he writes:
 
“The Brown & Caldwell report talks of a correlation between urbanization and nitrates. Based on several facts, I do not feel that urbanization was that significant of a reason for the increased nitrate levels.
 
“The following analysis from the shallow municipal wells shows that there is NOT an abnormal increase in NO3. Some of the smaller wells are pumped so infrequently that they reflect only a localized situation.
 
“The conclusion that high nitrates are correlated to TDS is not a valid conclusion, if you examine wells #21E3 and 20H5 and note their very high TDS and only trace NO3, then look at wells 18B1 and HO1 and see the low TDS and high NO3.”
 
In a February 15, 1988 letter from Roy F. Spalding, Ph. D., Hydrochemical Consultant for Hydro-Trace, Inc., to Marilyn Dauffenbach of Los Osos, he states: “I have reviewed the RWQCB’s staff report which discusses the stable nitrogen isotope results ... they are using data with less caution than I feel should be exercised in this groundwater at this point …”
 
He continues: “… the homogeneous distribution of the nitrate concentrations and the trend of the decreasing concentrations with increasing population do not support the case for contamination from septic tank effluent. It is hard for me to visualize that equivalent amounts of nitrates are being radially drawn into each well regardless of the spatial distance between the wells and septic laterals.
 
“The suggestion that septic leachate would have nitrogen isotopes similar to those of raw sewage is most likely erroneous. Also de-nitrification is induced where high carbon levels are present. In sandy soils de-nitrification can occur in both the laterals and the groundwater.
 
“In my estimation a full evaluation of the nitrate source or sources would take considerably more research. Presently, I think there are too many factors suggesting that the source of the nitrate is not septic tank effluent for me to unequivocally state nitrate from septic systems is the major cause of the degradation of the groundwater at Los Osos.”
 
The illegal well data was an important source of the contrived scientific evidence that “Los Osos septic tanks are polluting the Bay,” that they are degrading the drinking water, that they are the source for Blue Baby Syndrome, stomach cancer and other devastating conditions, and that the only prevention is the installation of the most expensive (per capita) central sewer in the history of the world.
 

IS AGRICULTURE THE CULPRIT?

 
On October 30, 1995, an article written by Tony Fitzpatrick appeared in the Albion Monitor, a Central Valley publication. The title of the article was: “Unsafe Drinking Water Linked to Agribusiness.”
 
The opening statement was: “A geologist at Washington University in St. Louis has conclusively tiered high nitrate levels in California ground water to one main source – the state’s multi-billion dollar agriculture industry.”
 
“Robert Criss, Ph.D., Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington and his colleague, Leer Davisson at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, have been able to establish a graphic link between high nitrate concentrations in water and agricultural ‘fertigation’ throughout the 7 million intensively irrigated acres in California’s bountiful Central Valley. Fertigation, a common practice at large, irrigated farming operations, mixes nitrogen fertilizers with ground water, right at the irrigation pumps.
 
“Nitrate comes from various sources, including sodium nitrate or potassium nitrate used as fertilizer … “The link is proof that alarmingly high levels of nitrates in drinking water … in these communities comes from ‘non-point’ source’ pollution – so called because of its widely distributed sources. The technique they have perfected completely takes the guesswork out of groundwater analysis and forces environmental officials to reconsider the nature and source of groundwater contamination.
 
“We have established geochemical ties to the source of nitrate in these samples, and it isn’t Mrs. Jones’ septic tank,” declares Criss. “Historically, nitrate contamination of groundwater has been blamed on localized ‘point-sources’ such as fertilizer plants, septic tanks, feed lots, what have you. But we show that the high levels of nitrate in groundwater in this region is primarily due to the widespread application of fertilizer.”
 
Sentinel note: Even though this study was focused in the Central Valley, the results apply wherever agriculture land is present. San Luis Obispo County is a prime ag-business county and many farms and ranches surround Los Osos and share the same groundwater.
 
The same short-sighted groundwater practices exist here. Under natural conditions only winter rain and storms recharge the groundwater. Where fields are flood-irrigated all summer long, groundwater is being recharged with nitrate-laden water that is as much as 10-times higher than at natural rates. When you include fertilizer plants and dead, decayed vegetation, the levels of nitrates in the groundwater are alarming.
 
Data collected from these non-point sources can be twisted to fit whatever scenario the presenter wants. As in Los Osos, wherever there was a likelihood of a high nitrate reading on horse or cattle farms, the terrorists went there. All actual scientific data clearly states that Los Osos does NOT NEED A SEWER.
 
From 1984 through the mid-1990s, Los Osos was under constant threat from the County and the RWQCB. Year after year, residents were faced with the probability that a central sewer would be built despite the fact that all bone-fide experts consulted, including state and county engineers (Bruce Gibson), stated that Los Osos did NOT need a sewer.
 
Without any supportive science and with complete disregard for public health and safety a coterie of terrorists, many in positions of elected and appointed State, County and local authority, enabled by a band of cowardly, greedy special interest trash began a cold, calculated Reign of Terror against Los Osos based on FRAUD, DECEIT, COERCION and INTIMIDATION. 
 
After suffering a number of setbacks caused by knowledgeable, alert residents and world-class experts, the County and RWQCB terrorists connived and colluded with a group of local terrorists who had been at the forefront of the sewer opposition during the 1990s and who had built credibility and trust within the community.
 
This group of local terrorists calling themselves “Team Los Osos,” led by Pandora Nash-Karner, Stan Gustafson, a corrupt attorney from Orange County, and Gordon Hensley, a phony alleged environmentalist and alleged child molester.
 
Sentinel note: In the early 1990s, Gordon Hensley was allegedly working for a church group in SLO County whose headquarters was in Oregon. Hensley was working with younger children. He was fired under suspicious circumstances allegedly involving children. The church has refused to comment.
 
These three miscreants were joined by an auto parts store owner, Sylvia Smith, a Cal Poly computer instructor, Rosemary Bowker, a handy man, Frank Freiler, and a ceramics restorer, Virgil Just.
 
In 1998 this group of seven calling themselves “Team Los Osos” actively promoted Measure K to form the LOCSD and ran as a team of seven for the five Director seats. Their mantra was “Better, Cheaper, Faster.”
 
Their mantra was based on a Pond System introduced and promoted by Pandora Nash-Karner and her husband, Gary, a system that would not work and that was never needed. It was apparently a cash cow for the Karners.
 
In November 1998, a majority of voters approved Measure K and Team Los Osos secured the available Director seats. The control by local, county and state terrorists was complete and appeared infallible.
 
Due to the negative exposure of the project, the County and the RWQCB, it was critical to the success of the scheme to maintain and nurture community confidence and trust in the new LOCSD.  
 
To that end, in mid 1999 the LOCSD terrorists delivered a brilliantly contrived, crushing blow to the community when they issued the following 19-word statement: “The RWQCB has mandated that Los Osos build a sewer. Los Osos has no choice!”
 
What no one in the community knew at the time was that it is illegal for the State or Regional Water Boards and the Courts to dictate any solution. 
 
The LOCSD knew it as evidenced in a letter from Briggs to Pandora Nash-Karner at her 350 Mitchell Drive address in which he stated; “It is not our policy, nor do we have the authority to specify the method of compliance.” That letter was dated January 23, 1998, 11 months before the LOCSD was created.
 
The LOCSD 19-word lie accomplished what the terrorists had hoped for. Many in the community believed the sewer had been “mandated” by a powerful state agency, that the vaccine-resistant, deadly pathogen-producing factory was inevitable and that the best outcome would be if the LOCSD could secure Grants to help bring the cost down. 
 
What Los Osos didn’t know for some time was that the LOCSD had “mandated” the most expensive (per capita) mega-sewer in the history of the world. Once this was made public, resistance to the project increased at an accelerated pace.
 
Such strong resistance was unexpected and caught the terrorists off guard. It forced them to spend time and money and diverted their attention away from the project.
 
They launched vicious, libelous and slanderous attacks against any in opposition to their scheme through mailers, slanted articles and editorials in the Telegram-Tribune and statements by RWQCB representatives, the LOCSD Directors and the Pandora Nash-Karner followers at public LOCSD meetings.
 
In 2000, 17 residents filed a federal action against the LOCSD.  Since issuing the “mandated” sewer statement, the LOCSD terrorists repeatedly told the community that it was not them but the RWQCB who was “driving the engine.”
 
Because of the specificity of the federal action, if the LOCSD terrorists had been telling the truth about the RWQCB “mandating” the sewer and that they had no choice, all they would have had to do was not defend the action and the supposed “mandated” RWQCB sewer would have been dead.
 
Instead, the LOCSD hired a 72-lawyer firm from Sacramento recommended by the RWQCB. The complaint was never allowed to be heard in federal court. It was thrown out by an alleged corrupt federal judge, Terrance Hatter, who was the chief judge responsible for assigning cases to the federal courts under his jurisdiction. Against customary policy, he didn’t even issue any reason for granting defendants Motion for a Dismissal or for not allowing the Action to be heard.
 
Fortunately, there were some people who continued to speak out. World class-experts and authorities spoke at public LOCSD meetings, pointing out scientific facts that proved Los Osos water wasn’t being polluted by on-site systems, that the project was built on lies, and that Los Osos didn’t need a central sewer. Those who spoke against the forced LOCSD sewer were treated with contempt and disrespect.
 
In one instance, the head RWQCB terrorist, Roger Briggs, attempted to denigrate the character and efforts of a world-class wastewater expert Graham Knowles, who had come by request to speak at a town hall meeting to present facts about continuing to use on-site systems, about current technologies and about water quality preservation.
 
Mr. Knowles was [is] an international consultant for the USEPA and involved at the highest level with the University of West Virginia wastewater research efforts. He is considered to be one of the world’s superior experts in wastewater treatment, water recycling, preservation and use.
 
The morning after the presentation by Mr. Knowles, Briggs sent letters to the University and the EPA in which he promulgated his usual lies and deliberately misrepresented the entire presentation by Mr. Knowles.
 
In his letter, Briggs stated in part: “The current community wastewater project is the result of decades of environmental studies; pollutant source evaluation; potential management; collection, treatment and disposal alternatives; cost-effectiveness studies; and public input.”
 
Briggs further complained that Mr. Knowles “[assured] the audience that on-site systems are viable and cost-effective alternatives to conventional sewering of the community of Los Osos – without revealing the dozens of alternatives evaluated for suitability in Los Osos, or the water quality implications of such systems.”
 
What “alternative systems?” There were none. There are many superior “cost-effective” alternatives that have been denied the community. Our “water quality implications” are most threatened by the most expensive (per capita) sewer in the history of the world, not viable, recommended and affordable alternatives.
 
Regarding “cost-effectiveness.” In a January 3, 1991 communication from the USEPA to the County Board of Supervisors regarding the proposed Los Osos sewer project, they said the following:
 
“The EPA has developed six (6) financial criteria that are not to be exceeded by a community for the construction of a publicly owned wastewater treatment system (sewer).
 
“The cost figures presented on the attached page indicate that the Los Osos sewer project exceeds every EPA limit for the six criteria in the screening process by as much as 356%.”
 
“The EPA also required that the financial capability analysis and screening process be kept up to date since several years often lapse between the initial planning and the award of loans or grants. In addition, the EPA required that the costs be reduced if any one of the six criteria were exceeded. If the cost could not be reduced sufficiently to meet the six criteria, then lower cost alternatives were to be installed.
 
“There is no question that Mr. Leonard of the RWQCB, Mr. Gibson, County Engineer, and the Morro Group* that prepared the Environmental Impact Report (E.I.R.) should have been knowledgeable of this essential cost criteria analysis, and aware of their responsibility to apply it to the Los Osos project, and to inform the homeowners of the failure of the project to meet the cost criteria.
 
“It is outrageous that these experts withheld this vital information and forced citizens and volunteers to spend time, energy and money to investigate this esoteric scientific field, and to tediously and painfully retrieve this data. These government employees are paid high salaries with taxpayer dollars to perform this service.
 
“We believe the RWQCB and the County of San Luis Obispo Supervisors have an ethical responsibility to use the six criteria set forth by the EPA, and to … also make in-depth studies of lower cost alternatives …”
 
*Sentinel note: It has been alleged that the Morro Group/SWCA was (and is) a front group willing to do the bidding of special interests in exchange for financial security. A quick trip to their website (http://www.morrogroup.com/company.htm) is revealing. There are no names of the Board or Group executives or their qualifications. There are e-mail addresses for a Mary Reents and Bill Henry.
 
From the Web site: “Two principals, Mary Reents and Bill Henry, head this firm and personally manage all Morro Group projects. The principals and staff (what staff?) form a nucleus of experienced professionals while local sub-consultants provide specialized services on an as-required basis.”
 
It is interesting to see that this Group has had dealings with a developer, Anastasi Construction, Inc., who has contributed money to Pandora Nash-Karner, built the newer, sub-standard homes in Sunset Terrace and has plans for more development after the sewer is built, and Whitaker Contractors, Inc., who, along with Barnard and Monterey Mechanical, was one of the only three bidders on the fraudulent sewer project.
 
In a March 18, 1994 letter to Clint Milne, Engineering Department, County of San Luis Obispo, from Clancy Tenley, Chief Municipal Branch of the USEPA in Fresno, California, the issue of “cost-effectiveness” was once again addressed.
 
In his letter, Mr. Tenley stated: “The FCA found that the project [sewer] exceeded four of the five financial criteria used, and that it [the sewer] fell into the high cost category.” He further stated, “It is clear to us that there are serious community concerns over the estimated costs of the proposed project, including potential effects on the high-percentage of low-income local residents.”
 
In 1991, the USEPA condemned the project and recommended cost-effective alternatives. Current County Supervisor (and terrorist enabler) Bruce Gibson has been aware of these condemnations and recommendations. As early as 1991, the County, the RWQCB and later, the LOCSD, all chose to ignore them.
 
After the defeat of the federal legal action in 2001, a small group of residents organized by Budd Sanford and Tom Salmon began the Total Recall Movement to recall all five LOCSD Directors. The recall announcement was made in late April by Budd Sanford at a public LOCSD meeting. 
 
Because of their two-year campaign of lies and deceit, the terrorists had been confident that the illegal June vote was secured. With the Recall and the exposure of facts, that confidence was threatened.
 
Within less than two weeks of the Recall announcement the LOCSD announced an emergency meeting to be held on May 8 at a church on 7th Street to clear up the “… inaccurate information disseminating throughout the community…” 
 
This was necessary because the terrorists were facing two simultaneous and serious threats to their scheme: the Recall and the passage of the illegal June 2001 Assessment District vote. The Recall threatened to end the fraud; the illegal vote was a necessary component in their scheme.
 
They knew they had to put on a real dog and pony show if they had any hope of success. This needed to be an all-out terrorist team effort. The RWQCB came to their aid in a big way.
 

THE RWQCB TERRORISTS DISINFORMATION MAILER

 
Three days before the meeting, all residents in the PZ received a 4-page, double-sided, 4-color mailing from the RWQCB. (Link mailing) After half a page of double-speak, salted with the usual deception and misinformation, is the heading: “Does the EPA support or oppose this Project?”
 
The first paragraph assures the community that the EPA “… strongly supports resolving water quality issues associated with septic system discharge in Los Osos.” (NOT A SEWER). This despite the fact the USEPA had no active interest or participation in the project.
 
The third paragraph under this heading references the 1994 James Kreissel Report. James Kreissel was (is) a high-level wastewater expert at the USEPA. He and two assistants came to Los Osos in 1994 at the behest of Pinetta after requests made by concerned residents.
 
The RWQCB mailer quotes Kreissel as saying “… densely populated sections of Los Osos, e. g., El Morro, Upland, Los Osos Village and Cuesta  will require centralized wastewater collection…” They continue: “The non-sewered option is not … feasible due to lot size limitations in most of the presently developed lots … and due to nitrogen removal limitations which fall short of the present RWQCB requirements.”
 
The RWQCB ends this by stating that “Kreissel’s report has been repeatedly mischaracterized by project opponents, leading to confusion on this issue.” At no time do they ever say that Kreissel concluded Los Osos needed a central sewer.
 
The following day after the LOCSD emergency meeting, a resident contacted Kreissel and reported what the RWQCB had said. Kreissel responded: “I was distressed to see the misrepresentation of my 1994 report on possible solutions for the Los Osos wastewater problems provided by Mr. Gerhardt Hubner (RWQCB) and signed by Ms. McGovern of the USEPA.
 
“By taking the statement about the difficulty in employing on-site solutions in certain portions of Los Osos (e. g., El Morro, Los Osos Village and Cuesta) out of context, the statement appears to support an area-wide sewer system for the entire community.
 
“In fact, it was clearly intended within the context of the report to justify that these areas needed to be served by Cluster Systems, and those Cluster Systems (at least 4 identified) would be part of a decentralized (mixture of on-site and Cluster) system that would require appropriate management to provide sustainable service in meeting the needs of the community.
 
“To claim that my report supported an area-wide sewer system is a gross misrepresentation of my report.”
 
Dr. Kreissel’s report had been referenced in a March 18, 1994 letter from Clancy Tenley, Chief Municipal Assistance Branch of the USEPA, to Clint Milne, Engineering Department, County of SLO.  In part, Mr. Tenley states: “… after a visit from Jerry Bock and Niko Letunic of my staff to Los Osos last December and an examination of the project file, we agree with Mr. Kreissel that a comprehensive approach incorporating conventional (Cluster Plants) as well as alternative technologies and ideas (on-site systems) holds the most promise for a satisfactory long-term solution.
 
“It is the opinion of many people involved, including Mr. Kreissel, that studies to date on the areas hydrology, source of nitrogen and denitrification have been inconclusive, and that further research is necessary.”
 
The next heading in the RWQCB terrorist mailer stated: “There are suggestions by some that monitoring wells are the culprit.”
 
Sentinel note: At no time were the monitoring wells identified as “the culprits.” The monitoring wells were identified as the illegal sources of fraudulent and specious data collected and used by the RWQCB, the County and the LOCSD to deceive the community.
 
It was Roger Briggs of the RWQCB who identified the illegal wells as potential sources for contamination by surface runoff and later identified by the Total Recall Committee as probable sources for intentional sabotage.
 
After exposure of these illegal wells, Total Recall representatives took the LOCSD to task at public meetings, exposing the truth to the community. It was critical the terrorists do something for damage control.
 
The RWQCB flyer attempted to do that by stating, “The LOCSD recently developed a comprehensive ground water monitoring program to evaluate long-term trends or ground water quality. The District evaluated the integrity of several wells, including the 11 most recently used for nitrate monitoring…”
 
Sentinel note: These were the illegal wells used for alleged nitrate monitoring by the RWQCB, the County and the LOCSD. These are the same wells identified by Roger Briggs in his 1984 memo in which he stated that these were “poorly constructed monitoring wells,” and that “Frank inspected these wells last week with Percy and agrees there is a potential for contamination from surface runoff.”
 
The paragraph continued: “This evaluation identified and recommended improvements to some of the wells (if they are to remain in use), and determined that none of these wells evaluated had significant potential for impacting ground water.”
 
Sentinel note: Apparently, any “… contamination from surface runoff” as cited by Briggs in 1984 had vanished and that all 11 wells had been remarkably safe for 20+ years.
 
The next paragraph in the RWQCB damage-control mailer attempted to deflect attention from the illegal wells by overloading the reader with double-speak about “… related and significant factors impacting the basin, then concluded with:
 
“Any small amount of storm runoff which could have entered a well is insignificant when compared to the pollutant loading from approximately 5,000 septic systems within the community. Remember, these septic systems discharge about one-million gallons a day of partially treated wastewater.”
 
What is meant by a “small amount of storm runoff?” Storm runoff had been allowed to occur over 20 years. “Storm runoff” is everything that is washed into a well by rain. It is a fact that the most serious contamination to public water comes from old vegetation, agriculture runoff, animal urine and feces. “Storm runoff” does not separate the harmless from the bad.
 
Sentinel note: Storm or surface runoff is the same. To give the reader a clear understanding, we have included a definition from Wikipedia:

“Surface runoff is the water flow which occurs when soil is infiltrated to full capacity and excess water, from rain, snowmelt, or other sources flows over the land. This is a major component of the hydrologic cycle.[1] [2]“Runoff that occurs on surfaces before reaching a channel is also called a non-point source. If a non-point source contains man-made contaminants, the runoff is called nonpoint source pollution.
 
“A land area which produces runoff draining to common point is called a watershed. When runoff flows along the ground, it can pick up soil contaminants such as petroleum, pesticides (in particular herbicides and insecticides), or fertilizers that become discharge or nonpoint source pollution.”

According to the May, 2002 RWQCB mailer and Roger Briggs, the illegal wells that Briggs had reported in 1984 as “poorly constructed” and having a “potential for contamination from surface runoff” must have magically thwarted any surface runoff  for 20 years and posed no danger to the public water. 
 
Regarding the statement that “… 5,000 septic systems” being “pollutant loading” and causing the [alleged] pollution of the Bay, along with “… coliform in the Bay caused by Los Osos septic systems” was more of the terrorist diatribe of fear tactics.
 
Common sense dictates the absurdity of both statements. All waste treatment systems are “pollutant loading” until the waste has been treated. Solids remain in the tank posing no threat to the environment. The liquid that leaves the on-site system is treated and purified by the Leach Field before being passed into the aquifer.
 
As far as 5,000 or even five systems “… causing the [alleged] pollution of the Bay” is foundless and illogical. There is no way anyone can identify even one on-site system as a source of contamination to the groundwater, let alone the Bay, without actually testing the individual system and determining the flow of treated waste from that system.
 
None of the agencies responsible for preserving and protecting our water have produced test results from even one on-site system that prove the alleged contamination of the Bay and/or groundwater.
 
Since 1970 there have been approximately 13 Cease & Desist Orders issued to individuals or businesses in Los Osos by the RWQCB. Most or all were issued during the 1980s. It is logical to presume that all conditions were resolved.
 
In fact, recent DNA tests have conclusively proven that contamination in the Bay comes from the Morro Bay sewer plant, the prison, old vegetation and agriculture runoff. NOT from Los Osos on-site systems.
 
In order for an on-site system to affect water quality in the Bay it must first be located next to or near the Bay. The causes of discharge would be a broken system that leaks or from annual flooding due to high levels of groundwater that prevent the Leach Field from properly functioning.
 
At the top of the second page of the RWQCB damage control mailer is: “What are nitrates and where do they come from?” Another ploy used by the terrorists was to equate [fictional] high levels of nitrates in the drinking water
 
The terrorists repeatedly told the community that our drinking water was high in bad nitrates from malfunctioning on-site systems and that we were all at risk of terrible medical consequences such as Blue Baby Syndrome in infants and stomach cancer in adults.
 
The terrorists often used Blue Baby Syndrome (Cyanosis ) as a weapon to induce fear. Below is an explanation of how BBS is caused. The reader will immediately understand that if the levels of Nitrates were high enough to cause BBS, the contamination would have been quickly identified by the appropriate water company or other responsible agency and emergency measures would have been required.
 
“Some pesticides (DDT, PCBs, etc.) cause ecotoxicological problems in the food chains of living organisms. It increases BOD (Biochemical Oxygen Demand) which kills aquatic animals. This causes high nitrate contamination in ground water resulting in decreased oxygen-carrying capacity of hemoglobin in babies leading to death. Methemoglobinemia is also known as "blue baby syndrome" (Wikipedia) NOT ON-SITE SEPTIC SYSTEMS!
 
At no time in the past 30+ years has there ever been any identification of Nitrates high enough to cause any disease, including BBS or stomach cancer, nor have aquatic animals been dying due to high levels of bad Nitrates.
 
Sentinel note: Since high levels of bad Nitrates can cause Blue Baby Syndrome and stomach cancer, and since the fact that there have never been any cases of Blue Baby Syndrome or stomach cancer in Los Osos linked to a concentration of bad Nitrates in our drinking water, it would be logical and reasonable to state that the alleged high levels of Nitrates in Los Osos water do not exist and that this is just another terrorist ploy to cause fear and create a false sense of urgency.
 
For a deeper understanding of WATER POLLUTION and related issues, click here.

THE RWQCB DAMAGE CONTROL FLYER CONTINUES

 
At the top of the right hand side of page 3 is the headline: “Do nitrates come from other sources besides septic systems?”

They answer: “Yes… The nitrogen cycle converts nitrogen from a variety of sources into nitrates in ground water.”  Then immediately they dismiss all other “sources” except Los Osos on-site systems as being the cause by concluding:  “… predominately from septic systems.”

They determine the actual sources of higher nitrate by preceding their mention in parenthesis with: (“…. to a much lesser degree”).  They then briefly list actual areas of concern: agriculture and horticulture operations, animals and natural sources (atmospheric deposition, soil disturbance, weeds, etc.).” They continue to deliberately exclude “old vegetation.”

They conclude with: “What we have seen in Los Osos is that as population (and septic tank use) increased from 1950 to present (2002), so have nitrates in ground water.”
  
In 1950 there were approximately 1500 residents. In 2002 there were approximately 14,200 residents. Common sense agrees that with more people there are more people going to the bathroom. Common sense also dictates that regardless of the number of people, there is no danger to public water except from malfunctioning on-site systems (and “poorly constructed” groundwater monitoring wells).

There is no relation between the population numbers and the alleged increased levels of Nitrates in the groundwater.

Unless all on-site systems had been inspected and counted in 1950 and again in 2002, identifying any and all broken or unusable systems that may have been a source of Nitrate intrusion, and unless the numbers identified exceeded (per capita) proportions, there is no logical way to equate increased population as a bone-fide argument.

In fact, since there was little or no water conservation or nitrate contamination awareness in 1950, no focus on monitoring on-site systems, the numbers of on-site systems with potential or actual problems were probably higher (per capita) in 1950 than in 2002.

ALLEGED ALTERNATIVES  

The rest of the RWQCB damage control mailer page attempts to deceive residents into believing that the LOCSD had investigated a number of alternatives, then rejected all for various reasons. The mailer states: “In their quest to best serve the interests of Los Osos they even examined “… other potential wastewater and septic tank technologies.” What “technologies?”

The mailer only mentions the Pond System that wouldn’t work. In fact, it was the only alternative system that had been considered by the LOCSD and not because after extensive research it was found to be the best, but because it was rejected by the RWQCB and the Coastal Commission.

It was a system introduced and promoted by Pandora Nash-Karner and her husband because they allegedly stood to gain substantial financial rewards. The Pond System was the center piece of the resistance to the county sewer in the mid-1990s and the system promoted by Pandora and the rest of “Team Los Osos” as “Better, Cheaper, Faster.”  It turned out to be Flawed, Costly, Inadequate.

The third page of the RWQCB damage control mailer addressed cost. According to the terrorists, in 2002 the estimated cost to build the deadly, vaccine-resistant, pathogen-producing factory had increased from $65.4 million to $85 million. In 2009 the terrorists estimate the costs to be upwards of $190 million.
 
In fact, in 2002, the true and deliberately unpublished estimated cost was between $250 million and $350 million. When the LOCSD illegally accepted bids in 2005 from only three firms, the costs had publicly risen to $95 million. Based on this increased percentage, the actual costs would have exceeded at least $400 million.

There is no way to actually estimate costs because there are too many variables. Not only the material availability and costs that usually fluctuate almost daily, but labor, time and engineers fees are major factors. The response from one firm to the public outcry to the $95 million was the high demand in China for materials.

An illustration of runaway and unpredictable costs of a central sewer was evidenced in a June 28, 2001 e-mail response from Tom Brossart, Managing Editor of a prominent Sedona, Arizona newspaper.

He was responding to an inquiry from the Total Recall Committee regarding the problems and difficulties they were having with their sewer project.

“The city of Sedona's sewer system has had a interesting past. The city was forced to have a system by EPA. The agency was afraid that sewage was draining into Oak Creek, which is a national protected scenic waterway.

“It was through mismanagement, bad design and people not doing their job, along with bad advice from city-hired consulting attorneys that a sewer system that was supposed to cost $25 million is now at $75 million and still counting.

“The location of the wastewater plant went through several locations as people were opposed to one location or another. The final location, seven miles from town was a compromise.

“It was much harder to place a sewer system in the older parts of town than in the new parts of the community. Putting sewer lines into already established subdivisions in hard rock conditions was a costly and messy operation.

“What really got this community in trouble was a badly designed wastewater plant and sewer system, bad cost estimates, bad advice from consultants and attorneys.” (Tom Brossart, Managing Editor)

The Sedona, Arizona, sewer project began in 1996 and was supposed to be completed within two years. When the Total Recall Committee contacted Mr. Brossart they were referred to the City Manager who told the Committee that construction was only three-quarters complete at that time (2002). He said they estimated another three-plus years to completion. Nine years, not three.

In 2009 the actual cost of the most expensive (per capita) sewer in the history of the world will exceed $800 million, perhaps as high as one billion dollars. The demand for steel, concrete and other related materials for the project have increased 10-fold because of the massive build-out of China. Growing East India is also a contributing factor.

In addition to materials and labor, engineering firms receive fees that are a substantial percentage of the total costs. The higher the costs, (which they estimate) the more they make.

To date, Montgomery Watson Harza (MWH) has received millions of Los Osos tax dollars to produce some drawings of the proposed sewer and allegedly create falsified water quality and cost estimates.

There is substantial evidence that has been presented to the County by ex-LOCSD President Lisa Shicker regarding serious illegal behavior between MWH and Public Works Director Paavo Ogren, the original interim GM for the LOCSD in 1999, which should exclude MWH from any further participation. (Link to Lisa’s summary)
  
As usual, the County terrorists led by Gibson, have deliberately refused to acknowledge the abundance of evidence and take any appropriate action to remove MWH and Ogren from the project. MWH is the County terrorists’ choice to lead the entire project.

In addition to the evidence of illegal behavior regarding the Los Osos sewer scheme, MWH was the subject of audits that heavily criticized their business practices (i.e., false billing, cost increases, etc.) on a huge Cape Coral, Florida, water and utilities expansion project.

The RWQCB damage control mailer continues the assault on pumping the groundwater. They continue with the “expensive” lie, then say that by pumping down the groundwater we would actually be “… allowing the pollution then treating the result… that we (as a society) would not be taking responsibility for the waste we are producing.”

According to world-class experts, by pumping down the groundwater we would eliminate pollution sources, be safely and responsibly managing and treating the water, allowing leach fields to work at maximum efficiency, irrigating farm lands and guaranteeing a perpetual safe supply of fresh water for the community. How is that irresponsible?

The RWQCB damage control flyer continues by telling us how the deadly, vaccine-resistant- pathogen-producing factory will “… restore and protect the ground water as a source of domestic supply for current and future generations. Wow! Who could be against that?
 
But how would a mega-sewer “restore and protect the groundwater?” If groundwater is not pumped down, flooding will continue to occur, wastewater will continue to flood certain areas. A mega-sewer does nothing for groundwater levels.

Whenever a sewer overflow occurs (and they always do) millions of gallons of untreated wastewater will flow right into the Bay, the estuary and the groundwater. Would the polluted groundwater be pumped out or left to Nature?

According to the terrorists’ mailer it is irresponsible to pump down the groundwater. According to the RWQCB terrorists it is irresponsible and costly to allow the Leach Fields to properly and thoroughly treat the waste, remove all of the negative bacteria and deposit fresh, clean water back into the aquifer.

According to the terrorists, pumping down the groundwater, allowing farmers to use a major portion of the untreated water, allowing Los Osos to have a cost-free continuous, safe supply of fresh water and installing a cluster plant to accommodate specific areas near the Bay is out of the question.

According to the RWQCB terrorists, a cluster plant or other current technology (where applicable) will cost more than the most expensive (per capita) sewer in the history of the world; a system that will not guarantee clean, fresh water, that will not affect the groundwater, that will be a factory for deadly, vaccine-resistant pathogens, that will endanger the health and safety of residents and the environment would be irresponsible.

Sentinel note: In 1978 the RWQCB had recommended the County pump down the groundwater in Los Osos and institute an on-site septic system maintenance program. When did pumping down the groundwater become illegal and irresponsible?

ONE COMMUNITY FOUGHT BACK

During the 2002 Total Recall effort the San Lorenzo Valley victory over the same RWQCB terrorists came to light. This community of more than 25,000 (almost twice as many as Los Osos) residents was under assault from the same RWQCB terrorists just like Los Osos. A central sewer was being forced on them.

Because the residents of SLV did not have a corrupt local District Board but responsible city officials who sought and presented the truth to their community, they denied the RWQCB a victory and instituted a sensible plan that included on-site systems management.

They brought in world class experts who properly analyzed their soils, hydrology and geology. Based on those legitimate studies, a long-term on-site system management plan was implemented.

Residents now pay approximately $25 per year for a safe, efficient maintenance program, not a minimum of $4800+ per year for a deadly, vaccine-resistant, pathogen-producing factory.
 
The RWQCB damage control flyer attempts to falsely minimize the resistance to costs by equating the Los Osos terrorist mega-sewer to SLV. They state: “The plan for Los Osos is similar; it calls for sewering small lot areas, with septic system management in the larger lot areas.”

There are no similarities between Los Osos and SLV. They defeated the RWQCB terrorists. They instituted a sensible, affordable and safe plan to protect and preserve their fresh water while properly and affordably preserving the on-site systems. Los Osos has been deliberately deprived of those safe, affordable and successful opportunities.

On the fourth page of the terrorist RWQCB damage-control flyer they ask: “Who is the Regional Board and what is its mandate?” They follow by simply listing their legal description and the geographical boundaries serviced by this RWQCB.

It’s the second (and last) paragraph that is compelling. They begin by stating: “The Regional Boards regulate discharges of waste in order to prevent degradation of water quality.”

Does that include allowing 11 illegal groundwater monitoring wells to remain open for more than 20 years, allowing animal feces and other pollutants to enter the public water? Does that include deceiving the public regarding waste and clean water management?

Does that include depriving a community of their civil and legal rights and supporting a terrorist movement to force a deadly, vaccine-resistant, pathogen producing factory on the community?

Does that include defying the law regarding assisting homeowners in securing Grants or other funding vehicles to repair or replace an existing on-site system? Does that include deliberately depriving residents of information regarding current technologies available and encouraged to enhance, repair or replace on-site systems?

Does that include deliberate violations of California Water Code and Penal Code laws and participating in a 30-year Reign of Terror against Los Osos? Does that include aiding and abetting election fraud?

The RWQCB terrorists include a list of areas and types of industries they regulate, then conclude by telling the reader that the practices of the RWQCB “… will result in water quality protective agriculture use practices, erosion control, storm water management, promoting conservation easements, etc.”
 
The most expensive (per capita) sewer in the history of the world in Los Osos will have NO effect on agriculture practices, erosion control, storm water management or promoting conservation easements (whatever they are?).
 
The deadly, vaccine-resistant, pathogen-producing factory will only process wastewater from homes and businesses. It would eventually contribute significantly to the pollution of the Bay and estuary caused by contaminated sewer spills and be the primary source for serious health and safety consequences.
 
It would have no effect on how ag land was managed, no effect on the pesticides and fertilizers used by ranchers and farmers, no effect on fertilization of individual home gardens and lawns, no effect on storm drain runoff and would not promote or offer any conservation easements (whatever they are?).

The RWQCB terrorists continue with a diatribe of the same lies and deliberate misinformation regarding why Los Osos must have the mega-sewer: We’re next to Morro Bay State and National Estuary, the community developed too fast without proper planning to protect drinking water, and extreme density of septic system use is the cause of ground water degradation.

This statement is nothing but double-speak. (That’s when someone wants to sound authoritative, knowledgeable, but is unable or unwilling to tell the truth).

Yes, we’re next to the Bay and Estuary. No working on-site systems are a cause of groundwater degradation. The population density has nothing whatsoever to do with endangering drinking water as long as the on-site systems are in working order.

The RWQCB terrorists attempt to induce credence and bolster confidence in their lies by citing the [alleged] “… many agencies and groups…” that have [allegedly] studied the Los Osos water situation since 1969.

They [allegedly] include “Blue Ribbon Committees” that were actually created and staffed by the County and later by the LOCSD and some “citizens groups” that were primarily composed of alleged terrorist enablers with the exception of one, The Technical Advisory Committee (TAC).

In 1991 the County appointed certain qualified individuals, including Wade Brimm and the late Dr. Tom Ruehr to investigate and report on the Los Osos situation. Dr. Ruehr and Brimm co-wrote the final report in 1994. A copy of their report entitled “Los Osos/Baywood Park Nitrogen Study” is available here. (Link to REPORT).

The subject of the report is the “Los Osos Soil and Ground Water Nitrogen Study.” The purpose was to conduct “… a study to determine if the nitrogen in waste water effluent from septic tanks, disposed of through the soils, reaches the groundwater in the Los Osos community.”

The study “… is one of the very few studies of soil and ground waters associated with septic tank, leach fields and leach pits. It is one of the first studies to be conducted directly below established septic systems and the first to monitor nitrogen transformations over a period of more than a year at multiple depths.”

The first page of their report contains three prominent questions and answers.

1) “What happens to nitrogen as the effluent from the residential leach pits and leach fields percolates through soils?

“Answer: The data suggests that the ammonium-nitrogen in the septic tank effluent at all three sites undergoes nitrification to nitrate. The nitrate is then denitrified presumably to nitrogen gas which returns to the atmosphere as a harmless component of our air.

2)   “Does nitrate reach and contaminate the ground water?

“Answer: At the lowest sampling depth, which was well above the groundwater, there was at two of the three sites a lower concentration of nitrate in the leachate than in the groundwater itself. This is strong evidence that the nitrate is not actually reaching the ground water.

3)  “Does de-nitrification occur directly below leach pits and leach fields in Los Osos?

“Answer: Yes. The data from all three sites support the conclusion that de-nitrification occurs below the leach pits and leach fields… This pattern of nitrification and then de-nitrification held true for all three sites at all sampling levels.”

They conclude by stating: “The assumption used in previous studies, that all nitrogen passes from the septic tank through the soil to the groundwater, is shown to be invalid in this basin. The evidence from this study (1991) demonstrates that a conventional septic/ leach system can effectively reduce the nitrate concentration flowing into the groundwater.”

The report verifies that leach pits and leach fields “… are both effective in delivering effluent to the soil where nitrate removal occurs.”

The report confirms: “The high nitrate level found in the groundwater at the Bayridge Estates site at lower water levels appears to be coming from some source other than septic effluent.

“This unknown source of nitrate appears to be unrelated to season, rainfall or population density. Some potential sources include residential, nursery and greenhouse fertilizer applications, animals including pets, native plants and geologic nitrogen.” (NOT ON-SITE SEPTIC SYSTEMS).

The report continues by focusing on chaparral vegetation.

“The Los Osos community is located in the middle of an area which was originally chaparral vegetation. The chaparral still exists on the north side near Morro Bay, on the eastern side east of South Bay Boulevard and especially to the south on the hills above most of the community. A natural source of biologically-fixed nitrogen is the abundant Ceanothus, as suggested from the soil core data from the native site.

“At all sites soil nitrogen profiles were found to be similar. The ammonium-nitrogen, nitrate-nitrogen and total Kjeldahl-nitrogen in the native vegetation and park soils were as high as, or higher than under septic system sites.”

Under “RECOMMENDATIONS” the report states: The TAC recommends that before developing any new wastewater treatment facilities for Los Osos, the source of the high nitrates in the ground water be identified, including biological and geological sources. If the septic tanks are not the major source of the nitrate, then a sewer will not solve the problem and the community still may not be able to use the ground water.”

They conclude by recommending the County conduct a “… complete nitrogen mass balance including measured parameters.” That “…additional sources of funding be sought to continue some investigations at the three instrumental sites and that an extension of permits be applied for the monitoring wells. Tests could be run to determine if the de-nitrification process could be enhanced in these systems … by providing a small amount of energy source (sugar or alcohol) to the bacteria which requires energy to denitrify the nitrate.”

Every legitimate, independent and objective world-class expert who has studied the Los Osos groundwater and wastewater issues concluded that a sewer was not needed and recommended other, more effective, affordable and safe measures.

They have all concluded that dead, decaying vegetation and agriculture runoff are the primary causes of any groundwater degradation. Their reports and recommendations have been deliberately ignored by the County and the LOCSD.

The LOCSD was asked a number of times to verify the total number of alleged alternatives “evaluated” but always refused to do so. A number of Public Records Requests were submitted to the LOCSD, the State and Regional Water Boards regarding the alleged alternatives “evaluated” with no success.

The following became a common response from the LOCSD regarding Public Records Requests: “According to President Bowker (or GM Bruce Buel) these questions do not constitute a Public records Request. Please note that you need to state the specific document that you are requesting.”

Requests for data regarding alleged alternatives “evaluated” were always met with this response.

Roger Briggs of the RWQCB said it was not the responsibility of the RWQCB to seek out the requested information. Neither the LOCSD nor the RWQCB were able or willing to respond as required by law.

Whenever the LOCSD was asked to produce material to validate specific statements or claims such as a correspondence from the RWQCB that “mandated” a sewer, to produce specific scientific studies to prove human contamination of the water and Bay by Los Osos septic systems or many other relevant documentation, they responded with the same refusals: “President Bowker (or GM Buel) does not consider this a legitimate Public Records Request. You must specify the particular document.”
 

ILLEGAL JUNE 2001 VOTE

  
On September 11, 2001, Muslim fascist terrorists used airplanes as bombs to cowardly attack our nation. They destroyed World Trade Center buildings and a portion of the Pentagon, killing almost 3,000 people. The fourth plane was forced down by brave Americans and crashed in a field in Pennsylvania, saving countless lives.
 
In June 2001, the cowardly LOCSD terrorists dropped their bomb on Los Osos in the form of the illegal Assessment District vote intended to kill the legal and Constitutional rights of the thousands living in the Prohibition Zone and condemn the community to an eternity of debt, sewer sludge and spills from a deadly, vaccine-resistant, pathogen-producing factory built in the center of town.

From their inception, breaking the law was a common and necessary practice of the LOCSD. Once the 19-word lie about the RWQCB having “mandated” the sewer and Los Osos having “no choice” was spread, they maintained their illegal course of action no matter what it cost the community.

The illegal June 2001 vote was a key component to their fraudulent scheme and had to succeed at any cost … or risk.
  
The following is focused on the materials sent to voters by the LOCSD and the Pandora Nash-Karner group, “Vote ‘Yes’ For the Sewer!” This is so very important because it exposes the blatant, deliberate disregard for penal and election law and violation of civil rights by the LOCSD that were supported and aided by the RWQCB.

In March, 2001, three months before the vote, the LOCSD began their campaign of lies and threats through a number of mailers called “Messages” sent to voters. In these “Messages,” the LOCSD continued the threats and lies regarding the RWQCB “mandated” sewer, $10,000 per day fines against residents, higher costs for delays, a County take-over of the project and more if the vote failed. 

These mailers were vehicles of propaganda designed to intimidate and coerce voters into either voting “Yes” or not voting at all. They were fraught with many violations of the Penal and Election Codes as well as Civil Rights.
  
As many as 75% of the voters in the PZ, many of whom would have voted No, believed there was no point in voting. Because of the terrorist propaganda they believed the sewer had been “mandated” by the RWQCB, that it was going to be built regardless and that their No vote would only hurt economically so they abstained.

The threats of $10,000 per day in fines against residents, inevitable higher costs and the County taking over the project if the vote failed intimidated and coerced many voters into voting Yes.

Of the 3400+ votes, only 657 were in opposition. Approximately 1600 votes were cast by 23 individuals and organizations who all owned multiple properties in Los Osos. Only 1 of the 23 voted No.
  
The LOCSD and the Karner group (Vote “Yes” For the Sewer) repeatedly told the community that if the vote failed, the LOCSD would be unable to secure an SRF Construction Loan.
     
In January, 2002, a local resident, Ben Difatta, sent a letter to Pandora Nash-Karner and asked her about SRF funding being denied if a sewer were not built. In her written reply to Difatta, Karner said, “The train is being driven by the agencies. State Water basically told us they would not lend us available low interest money unless we used a traditional system.”

In September, 2003 a PRR was sent to the State Water Board in which it asked in part “…if the State Water Board or the RWQCB had ever told Pandora Nash-Karner, Bruce Buel and/ or ANY LOCSD Director (past or present) that if the June 2001 A.D. vote had failed or the LOCSD failed to build a sewer project, that there would be NO State/Federal Revolving Fund money or any other State or Federal money for Los Osos.”

The September 15, 2003 response from the State Water Board was: “After a review of our files, my staff can find no letters or documents that have communicated the above statement or any other statement implying such a message.”

At no time did either Water Board tell the LOCSD there would be no SRF money if a “traditional system” were not built. In fact, long before the illegal vote, the LOCSD already had a $47 million dollar SRF Loan approval in place.

The $47 million dollar SRF Loan had been in place for more than a decade. Reference: “State Water Resources Control Board Resolution 2202-0020, Approval of a State Revolving Fund (SRF) Loan INCREASE for LOCSD Wastewater Collection, Treatment and Disposal Project, Number 4.
 
“On February 5, 1990, the SWRCB adopted Resolution 90-19 to provide a funding commitment of $47 million to the San Luis Obispo County for the construction of the Project [sewer] at the Los Osos/Baywood Park service areas.”

A $47 million loan approval for the County had been in place for 11 years, then was quietly transferred to the LOCSD. At no time was the community made aware of the $47 million by the LOCSD or the RWQCB.

After the illegal vote had passed, the LOCSD simply applied for an increase to $65.4 million and completed the necessary paperwork. The increase was approved on September 28, 2001.

On January 23, 2002, then LOCSD GM Bruce Buel sent a press release to all media on their list. In this release he stated: “On January 23, 2002 the State Water Board unanimously approved the execution of a loan agreement that allows the LOCSD to borrow $65.4 million dollars in low interest funds.”
  
Sentinel note: California Election and Penal Code laws are very explicit regarding voter rights. California Water Code laws are explicit regarding the rights of a community to decide the best approach to wastewater management.
 
The abundance of evidence that these rights were deliberately violated by the LOCSD and the RWQCB terrorists is irrefutable. Unfortunately, when evidence of election fraud, fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud and CWC violations by the LCOSD and the Pandora Nash-Karner group was presented to the SLO District Attorney, he was not interested.

It is important to know and understand the law if you are going to guarantee the health and safety of you and your family in this matter and have the confidence that we will bring these terrorists to the Bar of Justice. Click here for a deeper understanding of FRAUD: CASE LAW,
 
We have included text of some pertinent laws for a reliable and easy reference.
 

FRAUD: CASE LAW

 
“The duty to disclose facts arises when a person undertakes to speak, so that the speaker is bound not only to tell the truth but also not to suppress or conceal facts within his knowledge which materially qualify those stated, because one who speaks at all must make a full and fair disclosure.” Browenlee vs. Hang, 1965.
 
Regarding “Actual Reliance. “… It is not necessary to communicate directly with the individual or group or any number of people … (a person) is subject to liability if he or she communicates a fraudulent misrepresentation to a third person with the intention or with reason to expect that it would be repeated to, and relied on by, another or by a class of persons...” Markin vs. Wasserman, 1993.
 
“Having reason to expect that a fraudulent misrepresentation will be communicated to, and influence a third party, requires only knowledge on the part of the person making the misrepresentation such that a reasonable person would conclude that there is a special likelihood that the misrepresentation will induce reliance by third parties.” Geernhart vs. Mitchell, 1995.
 

PENAL CODE

 
Penal Code Section 30–32 defines parties to crimes as “Principals” and “Accessories.”
 
Penal Code Section 31 states: “All persons concerned in the commission of a crime, whether it be felony or misdemeanor, and whether they directly commit the act constituting the offense, or aid and abet in its commission, or not being present have advised or encouraged its commission … ARE GUILTY.”
 
Sentinel note: Since 1999 when the LCOSD released the fraudulent RWQCB “mandated” sewer statement, all of the deliberate misinformation and threats spoken and written by the LOCSD, the RWQCB, all of the Pandora Nash-Karner enabler groups (Vote “Yes” For the Sewer, "Save the Dream," et al), and all individual private citizens who had knowledge of any of the misrepresentations, are guilty of multiple counts of fraud.
 
Penal Code Section 115.1(a): “The Legislature finds and declares that the voters of California are entitled to accurate representations in materials that are directed to them in efforts to influence how they vote.
 
“Campaign advertisement" means any communication directed to voters by means of a mass mailing, a paid television, radio, or newspaper advertisement, an outdoor advertisement, or any other printed matter.”
 
Penal Code Section 115.2(a) further states: “No person shall publish or cause to be published, with actual knowledge, and intent to deceive, any campaign advertisement containing false or fraudulent depictions, or false or fraudulent representations of official public documents or purported official public documents.
 
Penal Code Section 182(a) If two or more persons conspire:
(1) To commit any crime.
(5) To commit any act injurious to the public health, to public morals, or to pervert or obstruct justice, or the due administration of the laws.”
 
They are punishable as follows: “When they conspire to commit any crime …. they are guilty of a felony and are punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for five, seven, or nine years.
 
“When they conspire to commit any other felony, they shall be punishable in the same manner and to the same extent as is provided for the punishment of that felony.”
 

CALIFORNIA ELECTION CODE

 
CAEC Section 18500. Any person who commits fraud or attempts to commit fraud, and any person who aids or abets fraud or attempts to aid or abet fraud, in connection with any vote cast, to be cast, or attempted to be cast, is guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment for 16 months or two or three years.
 
CAEC Section 18501. Any public official who knowingly violates any of the provisions of this chapter, and thereby aids in any way the illegal casting or attempting to cast a vote, or who connives to nullify any of the provisions of this chapter in order that fraud may be perpetrated, shall forever be disqualified from holding office in this state and upon conviction shall be sentenced to a state prison for 16 months or two or three years.
 
CAEC Section 18540 (a) “Every person who makes use of or threatens to make use of any tactic of coercion or intimidation to induce or compel any other person to vote or to refrain from voting at any election or to vote or refrain from voting … for any measure at any election, or because any person refrained from voting at any election or voted or refrained from voting for … (any) measure at any election IS GUILTY OF A FELONY punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 16 months or two or three years.”
 
CAEC Section 18540 (b) “Every person who hires or arranges for any other person to make use of or threaten to make use of any … tactic of coercion or intimidation, to induce or compel any other person to vote or refrain from voting for any particular … measure at any election, or because any person voted or refrained from voting at any election or voted or refrained from voting for any particular … measure at any election IS GUILTY OF A FELONY punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 16 months or 2 years or 3 years.”
 
In addition to the many Penal and Election Code laws violated, a number of California Water Code (CWC) laws were also violated. Among them are laws that require a District to secure greater than 50% community approval to even consider a sewer (CWC 22171), go back to the community for greater than 50% approval to enter into an SRF Construction Loan (13416 & 13417c) and go back a third time to seek 75% voter approval to issue Bonds (75150).
 

CALIFORNIA WATER CODES

 
CWC SECTION 22171.  The board may in its discretion by resolution call an election to be held in the entire district or only in that portion of the district proposed to be served to determine whether or not the district should provide for sewage disposal service. The ballots shall contain the following statement of the proposal:
 
"Shall the (LOCSD) Irrigation District provide for sewage disposal, or acquire existing sewage disposal facilities, within that portion of its boundaries as hereinafter described not now provided with adequate sewage collection and disposal works."
 
(Since accumulating this evidence, the Code designations regarding Bonds has been changed and is currently unknown to The Sentinel. The laws are still enforce and binding.)
 
CWC 75150. After the formation of the special improvement district, the board shall call an election for the purpose of submitting to the voters therein the question of incurring the bonded indebtedness… Which election shall be conducted in the manner provided for incurring of a bonded indebtedness.”
 
CWC [9401] (a) In connection with each bond issue specified in Section 9400, a statement shall be mailed to the voters with the sample ballot for the bond election. The statement required by this section… shall include:
 
(1) The best estimate from official sources of the tax rate that would be required to be levied to fund that bond issue during the first fiscal year after the first sale of the bonds based on assessed valuations available at the time of the election or a projection based on experience within the same jurisdiction or other demonstrable factors.
 
(3) The best estimate from official sources of the highest tax rate that would be required to be levied to fund that bond issue, and an estimate of the year in which that rate will apply, based on assessed valuations available at the time of the election or a projection based on experience within the same jurisdiction or other demonstrable factors.
 
(b) In addition, the statement may contain any declaration of policy of the legislative or governing body of the applicable jurisdiction, proposing to utilize revenues other than ad valorem taxes for purposes of funding the bond issue, and the best estimate from official sources of these revenues and the reduction in the tax rate levied to fund the bond issue resulting from the substitution of revenue.
 
Such proposal shall be followed by the words “Yes” and “No” on separate lines with a small enclosed space after each of the two words.
 
CWC SECTION 22172.  The ballots shall have printed on them under the heading “Instructions to Voters”: “To vote for a proposal stamp a cross (+) in the voting space after the word “Yes” following the proposal. To vote against a proposal, stamp a cross (+) in the voting space after the word “No” following the proposal.”
 
CWC 22173. The voters shall vote for or against the proposal by stamping a cross (+) in the voting space after the word “Yes” or “No” respectively.
 
CWC 22174.  Notice of the election shall specify the purpose of the election…” and shall be posted in three public places in each election precinct in the area of the district in which the election is to be held for at least 20 days and published in a newspaper published in the county once a week for at least three successive weeks.
 
CWC 12944.5(A) & (B), 12932, 12934(D), 75150 & 75152. Before a District can issue and sell Bonds, they must once again go before the voters and present all of the facts, hold an election and receive greater than 75% voter approval. This was never done.
 
After voter approval to build a sewer and voter approval to issue and sell Bonds, the next legal step is to ask the voters permission to enter into an SRF Construction Loan with the State Water Board.
 
CWC 13416. “Before a public agency may enter into a contract with the state board for a construction loan under this chapter, the public agency shall hold an election on the proposition of whether or not the public agency shall enter the proposed contract and more than 50% of the votes cast at such an election must be in favor of such proposition."
 
CWC 13417 (c) “The notice of the election shall include … the purpose of the election, the general purpose of the contract and the maximum amount of money to be borrowed from the state under the contract.” This was never done.
 
All of the above laws were deliberately circumvented by the LOCSD, the County and the RWQCB respectively. They deliberately violated laws in order to deny the community their civil and legal rights and used terrorist tactics to coerce and intimidate residents to influence the outcome of the illegal June 2001 vote and force compliance with their sewer policy.
 
The June 2001 Assessment District vote was a contrived ploy to deceive the community into believing with their vote they had approved the sewer, had approved the Construction Loan and had approved issuance of Bonds.
 
Whenever the Board was challenged at public meetings Rosemary Bowker or Bruce Buel would always respond with: “The 2001 vote met all of the requirements.”
 
In fact, the vote met none of the legal requirements. Election Law requires a Ballot to specifically state what the voter is voting for or against. The June 2001 Assessment District ballot said nothing about approving a sewer, approving an SRF Construction Loan or approving the issuance and sale of Bonds.
 
The only reference to what residents were voting for or against were the following words in capital letters at the top of the ballot: “FOR THE PROPOSED LOCSD WASTEWATER ASSESSMENT DISTRICT NO. 1.”

The LOCSD terrorists deliberately refused to allow voters a secret ballot as was their right as well as standard procedure. The terrorists deliberately used an open ballot as an additional means of terror to intimidate and coerce voters. It worked.
 
It was widely known around the community that since mid 1999, a number of individuals and business owners who had openly opposed the fraudulent sewer project and criticized the LOCSD had either been denied necessary permits or threatened by GM Bruce Buel and Nash-Karner with reprisals if they continued their opposition.
 
Because it was an open election, many voters had been intimidated and feared reprisals if they had voted “No” so they either cast a “Yes” vote as the terrorists demanded or abstained from voting at all.
 
In May, 2002, a substantial amount of evidence and support documents were presented to D.A. Shea with a request for a full investigation of the LOCSD, its Directors and GM Buel, Pandora Nash-Karner and her Vote “Yes” For the Sewer Committee for Election and Penal Code violations.
 
The District Attorney refused to proceed with an investigation. In a July 2002 correspondence he stated that “… while some of the wording in the literature distributed within the Community Services District may not have been technically correct (i.e. “a waste water treatment facility has been ‘mandated’”), the context of the message is reasonably valid in light of the long standing order by the RWQCB.
 
Sentinel note: CA PENAL CODE SECTION 115.1(a): “The Legislature finds and declares that the voters of California are entitled to accurate representations in materials.”  Not “technically” incorrect. “Accurate” means: “In exact or careful conformity to truth…” (Webster’s Dictionary).
 
According to the law, "Campaign advertisement" means any communication directed to voters…”
 
Penal Code Section 115.2(a) further states: “No person shall publish or cause to be published, with actual knowledge, and intent to deceive, any campaign advertisement containing false or fraudulent depictions, or false or fraudulent representations of official public documents or purported official public documents.”
 
Apparently D.A. Shea has his own interpretation of "accurate representations.” He apparently believes that voters are not entitled to accurate and truthful information and are therefore not entitled to make an informed and intelligent decision as prescribed by law.
 
D.A. Shea further stated in his July, 2002 correspondence: “Our office [believes] that statements and information distributed by LOCSD and its representatives are not such that a reasonable person would feel coerced or intimidated by them.”
 
Sentinel note:  According to D.A. Shea, all voters who had believed the lies that the RWQCB had “mandated” the sewer (a lie), that “Los Osos has no choice,”(a lie), that failure to pass the June 2001 vote would result in $10,000 per day fines against residents (a lie), that failure to pass would result in a more expensive County sewer (a lie), that failure to pass would permanently prevent the LOCSD from securing SRF funds (a lie), or that failure to pass will bankrupt the LOCSD (a lie) were unreasonable if they had felt coerced and intimidated.
 

LOCSD FINALLY ADMITS THERE WAS NO “MANDATED” SEWER

 
In July 2002, then-LOCSD president Rose Bowker issued a statement in the Opinion section of the Telegram-Tribune in which she said, “It was the responsibility of the LOCSD to select a method to treat our wastewater…  Did the SWRCB or the RWQCB ‘mandate’ the use of extended aeration in a centrally located facility to treat the community’s wastewater (a sewer). No.”
 
Sentinel note: This was the first time the sewer was referred to as an “extended aeration in a centrally located facility.” Perhaps the LOCSD terrorist felt it necessary to refrain from saying “sewer” for fear residents would not continue to be deceived.
 
After the “mandated” lie had been exposed and had lost its intended force, they switched to the RWQCB “mandating” a solution with “a proven track record.”  In the same short statement, Bowker continued with: “Does extended aeration in a centrally located facility (a sewer) have a proven track record? Yes.”
 
Once again, the community was deliberately deceived. The RWQCB had not “mandated” a sewer but had “mandated” a “proven track record.”
 
Public Records Requests (PRRs) were sent to the State and Regional Water Boards asking if they had ever “mandated” the LOCSD use a solution with a “proven track record,” and, if so, to define a “proven track record.”
 
In an August 28, 2003 response from Briggs of the RWQCB he stated: “I am not aware of any such correspondence or conversation.” (No mandated solution with a “proven track record.”)
 
Briggs further stated: “… specific collection, treatment, reuse and disposal technologies are selected by the project proponent (the CSD) and not by the Regional Board.”
 
Sentinel note: After four years of silence and irreparable damage to the community, Briggs finally admitted the RWQCB did not “mandate” a sewer, the LOCSD did.
 
In a September 15, 2003 response, the State Water Board Director, Celeste Cantu, stated: “The phrase ‘proven track record’ was taken from common speech and was not intended to carry any legislatively defined meaning.
 
“It is merely a reference to our fiduciary responsibility to make sound funding decisions based on established engineering knowledge in administering the SRF Program.”
 
A follow-up PRR was sent to the State Water Board asking for clarification of “common speech.” Their September 29, 2003 reply stated: “… the term ‘common speech’ is meant to imply that the phrase ‘proven track record’ is of widespread and general usage; in other words part of the general lexicon. As such you may assign the standard dictionary meaning to the words.”

There were no laws requiring, nor was there any “mandate” issued, that required the LOCSD to use any specific system or that it have a “proven track record.” It only had to be a solution that was proven to properly and safely produce the required results. Any current, proven technology that treated wastewater either in an on-site system or through a Cluster Plant was acceptable and affordable.
 
In 2003, both the State and Regional Water Boards finally admitted that it was the LOCSD who had chosen the deadly vaccine-resistant, pathogen-producing factory.
 
Despite the overwhelming evidence of fraud regarding the entire project the LOCSD and RWQCB continued their Reign of Terror with an arrogant fury. They launched vicious, libelous and slanderous attacks against anyone in opposition to their scheme through community-wide mailers, statements by RWQCB representatives, LOCSD Directors and their GM, Bruce Buel.
 
Their platforms were LOCSD public meetings, slanted articles written by Telegram-Tribune hacks, Pandora Nash-Karner pre-written, anonymous editorials in the Telegram-Tribune and any other means available.
 

A SUCCESSFUL RECALL WITH DEVESTATING RESULTS

 
In 2002, the Total Recall was launched by Budd Sanford and Tom Salmon intended to remove all five LOCSD Directors. Because of circumstances, including sabotage by Julie Tacker from within, the recall failed to acquire the 2475 signatures (each) required to place the recall on the ballot.   
 
In 2005 a successful recall removed the three remaining LOCSD terrorists, Gustafson, Hensley and Le Gros, but not before they caused irreparable damage to the community including the removal of 53 trees from the Tri-W site in the middle of town so they could put shovels in the ground, officially beginning the illegal project and tying the hands of the new LOCSD Board.
 
With the recall election just a few short weeks away and a Measure B on the ballot to permanently disqualify the Tri-W site, then-LOCSD president Stan Gustafson and GM Bruce Buel, with assistance from the State and Regional Water Boards, conspired to push the project ahead.
 
The State Water Board quickly (and illegally) released some SRF funds which were used to bring in a tremendous amount of construction equipment and launch shovels in the ground. 
 
With their usual arrogant pomp, the three recalled-in-disgrace LOCSD Directors, GM Buel, Pandora Nash-Karner and a handful of supporters, along with more than 100 residents in opposition, gathered at the Tri-W site on a Saturday morning for a brief and boring ceremony.
 
Shovels in the ground was important to the terrorists because of regulations in the SRF Program that state once money has been loaned and a project begun, it is very difficult, if not impossible to stop.
 
There was a period of six to eight weeks before the new Directors would be legally sworn in. The terrorists were still in charge. The Sentinel has been told by more than one source that during this dead time Gustafson, Buel and Hensley allegedly removed a number of files and documents that would have purportedly proven a number of felony acts including probable payoffs and kickbacks.
 

THE TERRORISTS STRIKE BACK

 
Immediately after their official removal from office, the recalled-in-disgrace LOCSD Directors in conjunction with the Pandora Nash-Karner terrorist faction launched a number of frivolous legal actions against the LOCSD, including an action against two of the Directors, in an effort to divert attention from the behind the scenes machinations of the RWQCB and the Stage Water Board, create community anger towards the new Board, deplete the remaining LOCSD coffer and force the LOCSD into bankruptcy.  
 
The RWQCB did its part to harass, coerce and intimidate the community by attacking 45 residents with Cease and Desist Orders (CDOs). The offenders were allegedly picked at random and forced to spend thousands of dollars to date. They have been repeatedly denied their civil rights by the RWQCB regarding admissible evidence, time allotted to file papers, the right to speak in defense and more.
 
Based on e-mails between Briggs and Pandora Nash-Karner within hours after the results of the recall vote had been announced, there was no doubt that the 45 token CDOs and the simultaneous assault on the LOCSD were pre-planned.
 
The State Water Board terrorists did their part to coerce, intimidate and destroy the new LOCSD. After illegally granting the release of some SRF Construction Loan funds to the previous Board, they refused to release already promised money to the new Board necessary to meet commitments to contractors made by the recalled-in-disgrace Board.
 
The new Board was sued by Whittaker Construction (one of the three who had bid the project) for $3 million. The LOCSD coffer was all but empty and their resistance crushed.
 
When it appeared the LOCSD was defeated, Sam Blakeslee and Gail McPherson stepped in. McPherson had been [mis]advising the new Board since the election. She had colluded with Blakeslee to push Assembly Bill AB2701 through the state legislature that would return complete control of the project to the County. McPherson advised the new Board to capitulate and they did.
 
Los Osos had been sold out again by someone they had trusted and appeared to have no way to resist the eventual installation of the most expensive (per capita), deadly vaccine-resistant, pathogen-producing factory in the history of the world.
 
After the passage of AB2701 the County terrorists were back in charge. Since taking over, they have continued the threats, lies and deliberate misinformation in order to crush resistance and force the conclusion of the project. They continue to treat all those who oppose the project in any way with arrogant contempt and disdain.
 
They have continued to ignore and manipulate the laws as it suits their purposes and protects those in the inner circle from any investigation or prosecution. They have appointed Paavo Ogren to head the project despite being presented with hundreds of pages of evidence and support documents exposing his acts of corruption involving Montgomery Watson Harza (MWH), the original LOCSD and ex-GM Bruce Buel.
 
According to SLO County Counsel Warren Jensen, Paavo Ogren’s past allegedly corrupt behavior and involvement with MWH in no way disqualifies either Ogren or MWH from their current positions.
 
The terrorists continue to ignore law, deprive the community of civil and legal rights and to protect their own regardless. They continue to deceive, intimidate and coerce in order to build the most expensive (per capita) vaccine-resistant, deadly pathogen-producing factory in the history of the world with complete disregard for the economic, environmental and physical health and future of Los Osos.
 
If this is not enough to make you determined to defeat these terrorists and unite the community then nothing will. As has been stated, time is not our friend; and apathy is a serial killer.
 
Take action today! Invest in your ticket and get on board the Los Osos R.I.C.O. Civil Action Express and ride to victory.
 

TERRORIST REWARDS

 
To risk everything requires a serious payoff. Controlling the number of terrorists and their enablers determined to force a billion-dollar vaccine-resistant, deadly pathogen-producing factory on Los Osos is too large to control without the promise of significant booty for all.
 
It’s difficult to state what each person is expecting to receive but it is possible to give an overview of the rewards for the terrorist leaders that is supported by the evidence and common sense.  
 
Beginning with the Water Boards. The head of the snake is the State Water Resources Control Board. Their nine branch offices are known as the Regional Water Quality Control Board charged with overseeing specific territories.
 
Each RWQCB is charged by law with the responsibility of monitoring local water quality, overseeing necessary steps to protect and preserve the quality of the water, assist individuals, businesses or communities in protecting and preserving water, help in the management of wastewater and enforce necessary Water Code laws when applicable.
 
Because of the deliberate plethora of regulations, many of which purposely over lap or occasionally contradict one another, the opportunity for corruption through confusion and interpretation is an open door. The labyrinth of confusion this excess creates is deliberately designed to detour individuals from interfering
 
Lawyers function on legal interpretation and usually lawyers write and approve laws. Whenever a powerful state agency requires more control they simply create a new regulation or, if unable to do so, have a new law crafted and passed. If there is a contradiction in laws or a conflict the agencies know that it will take expensive court challenges which most individuals are unable or unwilling to afford.
 
The State water Board and their subordinates, the nine Regional Water Quality Control Boards use these convoluted laws and regulations to manipulate circumstances favorable to their purposes whenever necessary and to help protect those who are manipulating the local situations for them.
 
An example of a law being created for a single purpose is Blakeslee Bill AB2701, allegedly crafted in a back room by the State and/or Regional Water Board that was intended to take control of the fraudulent Los Osos sewer project away from the LOCSD and return it to the County seat of local corruption where Water Board influence has more leverage.  
 
The Water Board does not want you to know about the current position of the USEPA and other responsible agencies regarding the condemnation of central sewers in favor of the individual on-site system and cluster plants. They don’t want you to know about grant programs for individual on-site systems repair or replacement.
 
They don’t want you to know because it is critical to their economic and political power base to make large loans for central sewer projects and other like projects in order to maintain control and be able to help their friends who, in turn, help protect them.
 
They don’t want you to know about grants that are available for upgrading, repairing or replacing on-site systems. Grants would eliminate the need for colossal loans thereby seriously depleting their annual federal dollar infusion. The loss of dollars equates to a restricted and significantly reduced ability to influence and control a community, business or organization.
 
By forcing multi-million and billion-dollar projects on communities the Water Board is able to continue its annual increases of hundreds of millions of tax dollars that have allowed them to become the most powerful agency in the state and to continue their selected assaults against any community, business or individual they or their developer friends choose as their next victims.
 
The County is not interested in advising communities about grants or current technology regarding on-site septic systems because it would not be in the best interest of their friends at the Water Board or allow the massive community growth that provide larger tax bases.
 
County officials are slavering over the Los Osos central sewer project because the social cleansing of lower- and middle-income families will make way for the massive development of million-dollar homes, townhouses, shopping centers and the like that will provide an immediate increase of millions of new tax dollars that they will use to continue to benefit their personal, political and economic ambitions.
 
In Los Osos, the billion-dollar vaccine-resistant, deadly pathogen-producing factory is the pass key to creating a new local seat of power while making a few of the terrorists and terrorist enablers wealthy.
 
Potential commissions for local Realtors will be upwards of $2 billion over a three- to five-year period as well as many property investment opportunities created by the plunge of home prices caused by the mass exodus of people. 
 
A favored few would see their business revenues increase while the community would quickly become a mini San Jose.
 
For some of the local terrorist leaders like Pandora Nash-Karner, it’s not just the backroom deals they are looking forward to their eyes are on political prizes as well. Karner is focused on the ultimate seat of local power: to be Mayor of Los Osos. She has declared many times in the past that she will be the first mayor of Los Osos. 
 
In order for her or anyone to become mayor, Los Osos must incorporate which benefits only the terrorists and their enablers. Incorporation would be the cap on the jar of the final destruction of Los Osos.
 
Here’s how the incorporation scenario of Los Osos will unfold. As soon as the massive build-out of Los Osos begins in earnest, Pandora and friends, under another Karner-created shill organization, like Taxpayers Watch, "Save the Dream" and Vote “Yes” For the Sewer, will come out in favor of incorporation of the community.
 
If they succeed in deceiving residents into approving incorporation, another Karner-created shill group will come out in favor of Karner for mayor and some of her chosen lackeys for vice-mayor, city manager, controller, etc. (Watch out for the return of Bruce Buel, crown prince of the terrorist enablers, and Jon Seitz, terrorist facilitator and poster child for all that is despised in a lawyer).
 
The Pandora-arm of the terrorist organization is concentrated on securing seats of power that control the local purse strings and allow them to dictate to everyone else how much freedom they will be allowed. Since 1999, their Campaign of Terror has forced hundreds of residents to move away, some out of fear of the future, some determined not to become VICTIMS.
 

CONCLUSION

 
Make no mistake, if this fraudulent, unneeded, unaffordable, vaccine-resistant, deadly pathogen-producing factory is built, the social infrastructure of Los Osos will be permanently devastated and the health and safety of our community will be in daily, deadly peril.
 
Hundreds, if not thousands, of our friends and neighbors will be forced to move because they will be unable or unwilling to pay the $150,000-$300,000 per household this deadly pathogen factory will cost each property owner over 30 years.
 
For the terrorists it’s an all or nothing game. Currently they believe they have retaken control and their destiny is assured. They are wrong! The one action they fear is the community organizing around a Federal R.I.C.O. Civil Action.
 
The terrorists have always known that community unity with direction and purpose would permanently end their Reign of Terror. They are aware that a Federal R.I.C.O. Civil Action is the only act guaranteed to bring all those responsible before the Bar of Justice and, if successful, see most criminally investigated, charged and convicted.
 
They know that a successful Federal R.I.C.O. Civil Action will wipe out their individual economics. The individual cost to defend against the extensive R.I.C.O. allegations would exceed $200,000 per defendant. Since R.I.C.O. is based on criminal activity, most or all of the terrorist defendants who are still government officials and employees would not be able to use public money to pay for their defense.
 
A successful outcome would impose millions of dollars in judgments requiring most to liquidate all of their assets. A successful outcome would allow for most or all money taken from Los Osos residents by the LOCSD to be returned.
 
When the LOCSD offered a 15% discount on assessment fees, a number of residents took advantage. When the LOCSD illegally issued and sold Bonds, each property in the PZ was hit with an increase in property taxes of $350 or more per year against a lien on their property.
 
The only hope for justice and a clean, safe environment for our entire community is to prosecute a R.I.C.O. Civil Action. To do this we must raise approximately $3,000,000. If we do not file the R.I.C.O. Civil Action the terrorists will prevail and we will see our beautiful town devastated and our freedom stolen.
 
It’s time to take a Freedom Pill and honor our duty to protect that freedom that so many have given their lives for. It’s time for many of us to personally acknowledge some responsibility for our current predicament. I’m referring to all who have in the past chosen to turn away, bury their heads in the sand and do nothing.
 
We call you the Involuntary Enablers. Most of you are good, honest people who were deceived, coerced and intimidated. Some of you believed that if you became involved you and your families would face financial reprisals and that there was nothing that could be done since the sewer had been “mandated” by the RWQCB.
 
Some of you allowed the terrorists to black out your common sense with their lies regarding the alleged polluting of the Bay by our septic systems and the necessity of installing a billion-dollar vaccine-resistant, deadly pathogen-producing factory in Los Osos.
 
Renters were easily deceived into believing their voices didn’t count when, in direct violation of the law, they were deliberately excluded from voting in the illegal June 2001 vote allegedly because they were not property owners. 
 
All of those inactions must be in the past. Apathy is not an option! Everyone in and out of the PZ must make the commitment to stand as one community and get on board the LOS OSOS R.I.C.O. CIVIL ACTION EXPRESS.  Make your small but powerful investment in a ticket today. 

COSTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF NO ACTION

LOS OSOS HAS A CHOICE! TAKE ACTION TODAY!

All this inevitable horror and more await every resident of the community if R.I.C.O. Civil Action is not taken. The health, safety and freedom of every resident is in peril.  

Los Osos still has a choice which must be made now or be lost forever. That choice is to stop being victims, stand up for Freedom by taking the only action that will guarantee a safe, healthy and affordable future for all Los Osos. Join with your friends and neighbors today!

Here are your choices: Be forced to pay at least $8600 the first year and be in bondage for up to an addition al $150,000 - $300,000, not including the ever-rising hidden and unforeseeable costs and expenses OR, make your one-time, anonymous investment of at least $600 and permanently end the nightmare, protect your family and save our community.

To guarantee anonymity for all, a safe address has been secured and all of the money will be deposited in an out of state bank account. All money will be accounted for and on-going updates will be posted in The Sentinel.

All you have to do to invest in your ticket is make your check, money order or bank check payable to: LORICO and send it to:

 
The goal is to raise $3,000,000. If each property in the PZ invests only $600 we will reach our goal.  What is your Freedom worth to you?
 
Apathy will cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars and sentence your family and friends to extremely serious financial and health risks. Apathy will open the door for massive build out, over population, crime and other serious consequences. Your inaction will open the doors to social genocide and see your property values FLUSHED down the sewer of economic disaster.
 
The Los Osos R.I.C.O. Civil Action will permanently end the nightmare, bring those responsible to the Bars of Justice, save property values, preserve the beauty of the community, allow for sensible growth, guarantee safe, clean water in perpetuity, protect the physical and financial health of our families and preserve our Freedom.
 
Invest just $600 (or more) in your ticket then board the Los Osos R.I.C.O. Civil Action Express today. Be a hero! All it takes is your commitment to truth, justice and Freedom.

 "GOOD PEOPLE DON’T LET BAD THINGS HAPPEN"